Common sense you believed is just an illusion. Eliminate the trap of assumption which rules your brain.

“I want to work at that company. The building is glassy and it is so closed to *Roppongi” It was my reason for applying. “A is very famous” or “B is trading company”. To a greater or lesser degree, do you search new hiring job for such reason? 

*Roppongi is the name of place. It is famous as area of rich people live and many active night clubs.

I guess some of you are finding job because your parents worried about you or you take care of your partner or child. Even it is a most important reason, I wonder about some of your reason of finding job is similar to mine. For example “Receptionist is cute” or “Building of the company is tall” or etc…

Can you really say it is different from mine?

Look on something from a biased viewpoint

“Excellence”, “leading company”, “popular company” and etc… These kind of subjective impression and concept interrupt your thoughts. There are people who “think and act independently” but not “excellent”. A lot of people belong to major firm, but salary is different story. In fact, there are so many small enterprises whose employee’s annual income is more 1 million yen than major firm’s employee’s salary.

The facts what I found later about the company.

1 There are so many unknown companies that annual income of employee is high.

2 If the company is steady and core business is “B-to-B”, it is good in general.

3 Famous companies aren’t as good as you expected.

4 If you are hired of fresh graduates, you should work hard. If you joined a company mid-way you would be comfortably off.

5 The companies of ranking by seniority have a good atmosphere generally.

6 Employee who has vitality quit the job if they work at 5

7 The Ranking of popular company is totally fallacious.

The thing I can do 

In the last 17 years, total amount of the companies I worked for is 6, average job tenure for each company is 2 years and 8 months, shortest period was 2 weeks and longest was 9 years for last company.

What I want to tell you is, even you didn’t think deeply or you have no experience or interest about job hunting, you can change everything and put into practice.

Office worker, no job, part-time job, temporary employee, and office worker again.

Contract and live changed so rapidly and I found that, it isn’t important minor detail about my position.

The important thing is “what are you going to do”. You should never be drawn into a whirlpool of competition. You shouldn’t waste your time of being worthless jealous, envy, inferiority complex or criticize to someone. The thing you should do is focus on the things at your hand.

The information we got is illusion. Best wishes to you! By isso